... platforms? To examine the repertoire of digital repression, I conducted a case study to analyze digital repression practices following the typology developed by Feldstein (2021) . I then took a closer look at how legal regulations in Belarus influence digital repression by conducting a qualitative...

... manner. The policy of “soft Belarusization” implemented by the state since 2010, on the other hand, demonstrated the ideological flexibility of the regime and its ability to deploy some oppositional markers of the national identity project to reinforce the official ideology ( Rudling 2017 ; Frear...

...Fabian Burkhardt; Jan Matti Dollbaum Aliaksandr Lukashenka pushed through an overhaul of Belarus’s constitution as a response to the protests against the official results of the 2020 presidential election. The goal was to address the desire for change among the population without reacting...

...Nikolay Zakharov; Aliaksei Lastouski; Sergei Mudrov This article analyzes the position of the Christian churches on the protests in Belarus in 2020. This study contributes to the research on the state-society relationship in autocratic regimes by nuancing the thesis that civil society is either...

...Michaela Grančayová; Aliaksei Kazharski This article uses the gender perspective to compare the 2020 Belarus protests and the Arab Spring and its aftermath in Egypt (2011–13). It argues that in both cases authoritarian militarized hegemonic masculinities, articulated through authoritarian body...

... of this dual-track transition model to the unyielding mass protests in Belarus, also occurring in Russia’s security orbit. Armenia revolution Belarus Russia fractured regions Sargsyan and his party consistently stated that the constitutional change and the transition to a parliamentary system...

...Aris Trantidis In competitive authoritarian systems, aspiring autocrats must win elections and marginalize the political opposition. In Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko’s strategy for political hegemony heavily relied on socioeconomic co-optation, offering privileges to supporters...

... symbol, and in Belarus potatoes are known as “the second bread”. The role played by banal everyday identity rituals is very important in complex political contexts, where identity building processes aimed at the transformation of a community into a nation-state with common identification denominators...

...Joanna Szostek This article investigates Russian media influence in Belarus during the second half of 2010, when an “information war” broke out between Moscow and Minsk. Samples of news content are analysed to reveal the varying portrayals of Russia generated by leading broadcasters and publishers...

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...Galina Miazhevich This article provides an in-depth exploration of the nature of the cultural shift in business norms in two former Soviet Union republics: Estonia and Belarus. While questioning the linearity of existing models describing social—cultural change and, drawing on Lotman’s model (1990...

...Lucan A. Way; Steven Levitsky This article examines coercive capacity and its impact on autocratic regime stability in the context of post-Soviet Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, and Ukraine. In the post-Cold War era, different types of coercive acts require different types of state power. First, high...

...David R. Marples This paper focuses on the 2006 presidential elections in Belarus and offers several explanations for the lack of regime change. It posits that the answers lie in the official interpretations of the historical past, the personal popularity of the president—acquired partly through...